5.5. Checking Out Source Code

Device Mapper library and
tools

The device mapper library is required to build LVM 2.

The first time you download from cvs, you must login

# cvs -d :pserver:cvs@sources.redhat.com:/cvs/dm login cvs

The password is `cvs'. The command outputs nothing if
successful and an error message if it fails. Only an
initial login is required. All subsequent CVS commands
read the password stored in the file
$HOME/.cvspass for authentication.

This will create a new directory
device-mapper in your current
directory containing the latest, up-to-the-minute
device mapper code.

LVM 2

The first time you download from cvs, you must login

# cvs -d :pserver:cvs@sources.redhat.com:/cvs/lvm2 login cvs

The password is `cvs'. The command outputs nothing if
successful and an error message if it fails. Only an
initial login is required. All subsequent CVS commands
read the password stored in the file
$HOME/.cvspass for authentication.

Use the following to check out a copy of the code

# cvs -d :pserver:cvs@sources.redhat.com:/cvs/lvm2 checkout LVM2

This will create a new directory
LVM2 in your current
directory containing the latest, up-to-the-minute
LVM 2 code.

LVM 1

The first time you download from cvs, you must login

# cvs -d :pserver:cvs@sources.redhat.com:/cvs/lvm login cvs

The password is `cvs'. The command outputs nothing if
successful and an error message if it fails. Only an
initial login is required. All subsequent CVS commands
read the password stored in the file
$HOME/.cvspass for authentication.

Use the following to check out a copy of the code

# cvs -d :pserver:cvs@sources.redhat.com:/cvs/lvm checkout LVM

This will create a new directory
LVM in your current
directory containing the latest, up-to-the-minute
LVM 1 code.

CVS commands work from anywhere inside the
source tree, and recurse downward. So if you happen to issue an
update from inside the `tools' subdirectory it will work fine, but
only update the tools directory and it's subdirectories. In the
following command examples it is assumed that you are at the top of
the source tree.